Word Family of Terms Originally Pronounced KUAR

Semantic Values of the Sound KUAR: Frame + (Curving/Round) + Continuum




  The terms in this word family add the nuance of curvature or roundness to the KAR family theme of Frame + Continuum.
　Examples of the forms taken by this combination include a multitude of round fruit on a tree (果), rows of round, pendent grains of cereal (委), a whirlpool (渦), transformation in a person's posture (化) or in the conduct of an elephant (為), revolving a hand in a circle (揮), a lingering halo effect (輝), a walled town/citadel (囲), great girth (偉), a round-headed, legless ghost or spirit (鬼), a round lump of earth (塊), a revolving object (回), the round stomach (胃), and sweeping in a circular fashion (帰).

　Among the non-Everyday Use Characters, we find the following examples:

A circular enclosure (囗, 囮, 窩, 窠)
Circular movement (韋, 徊, 廻, 揆, 毀, 迴, 蛔, 韙, 逶)
Swirling water (匯, 洄)
Vegetation that spreads or hangs in a circular manner (葦, 卉, 萎, 槐, 葳)
Round/lumpy figures of humans and other creatures (畏, 猥, 彙, 倭, 矮, 臥, 偎)
Recessions/depressions in elongated objects (隈, 煨, 冎)
Overlapping tiles (瓦)
Long weapon with a curved handle (戈)
The circular motion made in rowing (找)
The circular motion made in beckoning (撝)
Rolling of the eyes (睽)
A circular group (夥)
A harmonious group (伊)
A surrounding curtain (幃)
Wrap in clothing/cloth (裹, 褘)
The round anklebone (踝)
A round jewel (瑰)
Round (heads of) grain (顆, 禾)
A round flower (葵)
A pair of grooved mortars (磑)
A halo or ring of light (暉, 煒)
A rounded hill, or mountain peaks (隗, 巍, 嵬)
(The collapse of a) rounded pile of earth (隳)
Round/rounded implements (魁, 堝)
A rounded pile or lump of food (餽, 餧)
A piscine of a rounded shape (鮠)
A round insect (蜾)
A large-headed snake (creature that coils) (虺)
A hedgehog (animal that rolls itself into a ball) (蝟)
The round shell of a snail (蝸, 鍋)
The curved wings of a pheasant (翬)
A weapon rotated in the hands (癸)

　Extensions of meaning or abstract applications of the senses noted above are found in the remaining characters in this group.




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